If the plane comes crashing down having your tray table up won't safe you, so you can just as well enjoy the instructions.
No, but if the plane crashes on landing and I need to evacuate from the window seat, the last thing I want do is squeeze past your tray table so I can GTFO. Seat pitch is bad enough as it is without having to squeeze past a table so you can play Angry Birds on final approach..
Most people I know who spout this nonsense don't visit the doctor very much, after all "big medicine" is in the pocket of "big pharma," so they wouldn't hear the message anyway.
For those who might listen, one might temper it by saying homeopathy *does* work, but it's thanks to the placebo effect.
I don't think FB will 'Power the Future' because there's a lot of stuff they simply can't get right. Take their new search. If I enter "James Bond" into a Facebook search, my expectation is that the first thing it will search is my friend's feeds, followed by the feeds of companies and organization I like, followed by public feeds - Returning "James Bond"- related Facebook posts. Instead it just does a lousy web search. Why?
Or take ads. I'm a Facebook regular, posting daily. Yet FB has never been able to serve an ad up to me about anything I care about. Never. Not once.
...and my feed is just a total dog's breakfast with FB selectively choosing what to show me. I know I can pick "show recent" but the setting doesn't stick for more than 48 hours or so...
So will they power the future? No. They can't even power themselves.
And yet, people stated that "it would be soooo expensive" to add proper tracking to planes.
The 'people' are correct. $50M is much, much less than the billions it would cost to add 'proper tracking' to planes that cross oceans - And it still doesn't address the problem of someone in the cockpit switching the tracking off.
Because if you hand someone over knowing they're going to be shot in the head then you're no better than the killers.
It's the same reason we (Canada) won't extradite someone to the USA if we know a conviction will result in their being killed. It's uncivilized to do otherwise.
They don't have 'homes' - There is nowhere to send them. Furthermore, if you did somehow prove that some of them are Yemeni or Saudi or whatever, they'd be shot as soon as you pushed them off the plane.
Didn't our current Glorious Leader promise to close down that shame of a concentration camp years ago, incidentally?
The main problem with "Gitmo" is there isn't anywhere to send many of the prisoners. You put them on a plane and send them to Yemen and Yemen says "They're not citizens. I refuse them admission. Take them back where they came from." Unless you just drop them off in the Afghan desert, what do you do with them?
What is Godwin's law for Slashdot called? i.e. any Slashdot story about North Korea, after sufficient threads, will claim the USA is similar to North Korea in the given trait being discussed..
We have two kids & a big dog. Netflix is handy for kid-stuff, but I haven't made a dent in it. Take tonight. Bathed the kids, read stories, kissed 'em good night then walked the dog. Now it's 9:30. I'll watch a little news, then hit the hay for my 6 AM start.
Get back to me when I'm retired and the problem's been solved.
I would, however, urge him to explain to me how the basic human rights of Americans differ from the basic human rights of other humans...
Well, in the context of the NSA it goes like this: In the USA there is a framework in place that permits The Man to spy on an Americans (subpoenas, warrants), so if The Man wants to spy he needs to work within that legal framework.
There's no such framework in place for The Man to spy on alleged baddies in foreign nations - So in that sense, the rights of Americans are different from the rights of foreigners.
So by that logic you'd be fine with including articles on these 'alternative' treatments provided they had a big header at the top explaining that the ones that 'work' do so because of the placebo effect?
I'm from Finland and that writing style always confuses me when browsing through the headlines.
Great comment.
In English headline writing, using 'headlinese' it's traditional to take liberties with the language that wouldn't normally be allowed. This dates back to newspapers, when the number of characters available to you for a headline might have been reduced due to the large typefaces or the desire to create impact to sell a newspaper - So you would have seen headlines like this one, or oddities like:
SATELLITES SIGHT DEBRIS: CHINESE
The tradition continues today, even though it's largely an online world.
Slashdot Mirror
The exit rows don't have fold-down tables (for that very reason).
Not really true - Most exit-rows have fold-down tray tables in the seat in front of them, e.g.:
http://patstravelreviews.com/w...
Usually you only see them in the armrest when you have this situation:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3TIF...
If the plane comes crashing down having your tray table up won't safe you, so you can just as well enjoy the instructions.
No, but if the plane crashes on landing and I need to evacuate from the window seat, the last thing I want do is squeeze past your tray table so I can GTFO. Seat pitch is bad enough as it is without having to squeeze past a table so you can play Angry Birds on final approach..
Most people I know who spout this nonsense don't visit the doctor very much, after all "big medicine" is in the pocket of "big pharma," so they wouldn't hear the message anyway.
For those who might listen, one might temper it by saying homeopathy *does* work, but it's thanks to the placebo effect.
20 some years ago when toyota and honda started becoming popular
You mean back in 1994?
There is the probably reasonable assumption that this type of activity often comes with drugs, prostitution, etc.
Typically it's much more mundane stuff like tourists taking up parking spaces in the neighbourhood,
What is the logic behind that?
In the case of San Francisco, the hotel tax is used to fund the arts -
http://www.sfgfta.org/about/hi...
Tourists don't vote, so you can fund the arts without annoying taxpayers who might not otherwise want to.
I don't think FB will 'Power the Future' because there's a lot of stuff they simply can't get right. Take their new search. If I enter "James Bond" into a Facebook search, my expectation is that the first thing it will search is my friend's feeds, followed by the feeds of companies and organization I like, followed by public feeds - Returning "James Bond"- related Facebook posts. Instead it just does a lousy web search. Why?
...and my feed is just a total dog's breakfast with FB selectively choosing what to show me. I know I can pick "show recent" but the setting doesn't stick for more than 48 hours or so...
Or take ads. I'm a Facebook regular, posting daily. Yet FB has never been able to serve an ad up to me about anything I care about. Never. Not once.
So will they power the future? No. They can't even power themselves.
you are quickly into the (very low admittedly) billions.
You're into the high(er) billions once you add all the satellite bandwidth into the mix.
And yet, people stated that "it would be soooo expensive" to add proper tracking to planes.
The 'people' are correct. $50M is much, much less than the billions it would cost to add 'proper tracking' to planes that cross oceans - And it still doesn't address the problem of someone in the cockpit switching the tracking off.
the only explanation that makes sense to me is okham's racer
Occam's razor dictates that there's no way some guy named Okham turned the plane into his own private racer.
Gotta side with BlackBerry on this one.
...have been around for years.
Keyboards like this one...
http://0.tqn.com/d/ipod/1/0/w/...
However, one look at the "Typo" tells you that it's a blatant BB ripoff. If you want / need a keyboard like that, buy a 'Berry.
And that would be our fault...how exactly?
Because if you hand someone over knowing they're going to be shot in the head then you're no better than the killers.
It's the same reason we (Canada) won't extradite someone to the USA if we know a conviction will result in their being killed. It's uncivilized to do otherwise.
If you don't have proof then send them home
They don't have 'homes' - There is nowhere to send them. Furthermore, if you did somehow prove that some of them are Yemeni or Saudi or whatever, they'd be shot as soon as you pushed them off the plane.
How in the hell is this allowed to persist?
A majority of the citizens that vote don't care.
Didn't our current Glorious Leader promise to close down that shame of a concentration camp years ago, incidentally?
The main problem with "Gitmo" is there isn't anywhere to send many of the prisoners. You put them on a plane and send them to Yemen and Yemen says "They're not citizens. I refuse them admission. Take them back where they came from." Unless you just drop them off in the Afghan desert, what do you do with them?
Actually, I think you will need *two* wives.
That the USA for example.
What is Godwin's law for Slashdot called? i.e. any Slashdot story about North Korea, after sufficient threads, will claim the USA is similar to North Korea in the given trait being discussed..
Show me a competent public-sector IT employee
My buddy.
Pension plan, 9-5, 5 weeks vacation, stat holidays. job security. Lots of reasons people stay in the public sector.
When has Microsoft supported its products?
I ran Windows Update on my XP box last night. Seemed to work fine. So I guess the answer to your question is "yesterday."
Exactly.
We have two kids & a big dog. Netflix is handy for kid-stuff, but I haven't made a dent in it. Take tonight. Bathed the kids, read stories, kissed 'em good night then walked the dog. Now it's 9:30. I'll watch a little news, then hit the hay for my 6 AM start.
Get back to me when I'm retired and the problem's been solved.
I would, however, urge him to explain to me how the basic human rights of Americans differ from the basic human rights of other humans...
Well, in the context of the NSA it goes like this: In the USA there is a framework in place that permits The Man to spy on an Americans (subpoenas, warrants), so if The Man wants to spy he needs to work within that legal framework.
There's no such framework in place for The Man to spy on alleged baddies in foreign nations - So in that sense, the rights of Americans are different from the rights of foreigners.
So by that logic you'd be fine with including articles on these 'alternative' treatments provided they had a big header at the top explaining that the ones that 'work' do so because of the placebo effect?
I could live with that.
I'm from Finland and that writing style always confuses me when browsing through the headlines.
Great comment.
In English headline writing, using 'headlinese' it's traditional to take liberties with the language that wouldn't normally be allowed. This dates back to newspapers, when the number of characters available to you for a headline might have been reduced due to the large typefaces or the desire to create impact to sell a newspaper - So you would have seen headlines like this one, or oddities like:
SATELLITES SIGHT DEBRIS: CHINESE
The tradition continues today, even though it's largely an online world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Aren't they usually the champion of smaller government
No, they're the champions of Republicans who have little interest in 'smaller government.'
Why do we need to tear him down?
Because, according to a bunch of Slashdot neckbeards, he's not a 'real' scientist.